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Copy of printed programme for Irish Exhibition in Portsmouth.

See also the Irish Exhibition in Portsmouth, promoted by Portsmouth Irish Society.

A35/ 12 Detailing 13 sections of the exhibition.

Photo album compiled by G.A. Hayes-McCoy, containing postcards, stationery, and other mementoes such as receipts, illustrating his journey by boat and train to Bergen, Oslo, Stockholm and Copenhagen, and attendance at the 11th Congrès International des Sc

Printed programme for the Irish Conference of Historians, University College, Galway, for which Hayes-McCoy acted as Organising Secretary, and at which he gave the inaugural lecture; other papers given by J.G.Simms, Trinity College, Dublin; Hugh Trevor-Roper, Oxford.

Photo album and scrapbook of press and magazine cuttings, travel tickets, cards, correspondence, programmes for events, collected by G.A. Hayes-McCoy documenting his part in the Irish delegation to the Admiral Brown Centenary Celebrations in Buenos Aires, March 1957, headed by Minister of Defence General Mac Eoin. Hayes-McCoy travelled representing President Ó Ceallaigh, and as the President of the Irish Committee of Homage to Admiral Brown. With press material from The Irish Press , La Prensa , La Nación , The Standard (Buenos Aires), La Razon , and others. Correspondence including letters from Department of Education, Argentinian Legation (Dublin), Comisión de homenaje al almirante Guillermo Brown (Buenos Aires), Argentine Departments of the Defence and of Foreign Affairs, Rotary Club (Buenos Aires), and others. Illustrating journey, festive receptions, parade of troops, a Te Deum , and other events. Containing c.55 black-and-white photographs from events, and of museum artefacts, few with captions. Also including special envelopes and stamps; letters from children Ian, Robert, Mary (and two items removed).

Christmas cards, calling cards (F.G. Sonvico, Norberto Silva D'Herbil), photograph of commemorative medal in Spanish for Mayor McSwiney.

Report by [Hayes-McCoy] for the Department of External Affairs, listing events and stressing the warm and extensive hospitality given by all groups, and the high respect for Brown evident everywhere. [partly in Spanish ]

Copy of The illustrated book of the military tattoo and exhibition (Dublin 1945), for the events held at the R.D.S., Dublin, 27 August - 8 September. Listing G.A. Hayes-McCoy, National Museum, as "honorary historical adviser". Aside from programme, also including contextualising pieces on army and national themes; essays on Owen Ruadh O'Neill, on the battle of Benburb (by J. Dowling), a short story.

File of correspondence (including draft) between G.A. Hayes-McCoy, Major-General Aodh Mac Néill, organiser of An Tóstal , and Louis Elliman, managing director Irish Cinemas Ltd., over Hayes-McCoy's role as advisor and script-writer for the first Irish An